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Top 23 music-visualizer Open-Source Projects
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projectm
projectM - Cross-platform Music Visualization Library. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible.
Project mention: ProjectM – Cross-Platform Music Visualization Library | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-20 -
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audio-reactive-led-strip
:musical_note: :rainbow: Real-time LED strip music visualization using Python and the ESP8266 or Raspberry Pi
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LedFx
LedFx is a network based LED effect engine designed to deliver advanced real-time audio effects to a wide variety of devices.
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HyperHDR
Highly optimized open source ambient lighting implementation based on modern digital video and audio stream analysis for Windows, macOS and Linux (x86 and Raspberry Pi / ARM).
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MilkDrop3
MilkDrop 3.0, supports any audio source, double-preset (.milk2), loading presets based on beat detection and much more...
MilkDrop 3 latest release was in 2023!
https://github.com/milkdrop2077/MilkDrop3/releases/tag/MilkD...
Thank you, that's exactly what I'm looking for.
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Stream
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audio-visualizer-android
🎵 [Android Library] A light-weight and easy-to-use Audio Visualizer for Android.
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opencubicplayer
Open Cubic Player (unix fork). Music visualizer for various tracked music formats (amiga modules, S3M, IT), chiptunes and other formats related to demoscene
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sonic-sound-picture
Sonic Sound Picture (SSP) is a free, offline, and customizable music/audio visualizer software. With a range of templates to choose from, users can easily create stunning audio-visual experiences in just a few simple steps. SSP also allows users to create their own templates, giving them endless possibilities to bring their music to life.
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Geiss source is available now. Maybe it should be ported :) https://github.com/geissomatik/geiss
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maestro-cli – command-line tool to play songs (or any audio, really) in the terminal
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Arduino-FastLED-Music-Visualizer
An Arduino based music visualizer using the FastLED library and a strip of individually addressable LEDs
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pianolizer
An easy-to-use toolkit for music exploration and visualization, an audio spectrum analyzer helping you turn sounds into piano notes
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rawl
Harmony as Flags 🇱🇺🇱🇹🇬🇦🇦🇲🇲🇺 Western scores in 12 colors. MIDI files in, piano rolls out. Abolition of standard notation's gatekeeping. Prosthesis for sheet-music-blind people. Syntax highlighting for pitches. Pinyin for black polkadot characters. Also a text-based tracker (a notation editor), sorta diatonic CSound/Strudel with insert/copy
Project mention: Show HN: See Chords as Flags – Visual Harmony of Top Composers on MuseScore | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-05I designed a relative piano-roll-based music notation. I used 12 colored arranged in a specific way to make visible the main effects and oppositions of Western tonal harmony. The tonic is always white, so a manual annotation/interpretation is required for each MIDI file.
All chords are flags of three to four colors. Minor mode is darker, major mode is lighter. Colors are arranged in thirds.
I sorted the pieces from simple complex harmony. I also wrote a bit of text to explain what you may see. There's also a corpus of structures: hyperlinks of tags that allow you to find similar patterns throughout my corpus of 2k+ popular pieces.
My method makes chord progressions memorizable and instantly visible in the scores.
It's not synesthesia, it's a missing script for tonal music which makes harmonically identical things look the same (or similar).
I've also recorded lectures on my method in Russian (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzQrZe3EemP5pVPYMwBJG...). I'm sorry I haven't yet found time to re-record in English.
I've also sketched a friendlier intro: https://vpavlenko.github.io/d/
Sorry, but this thing won't make any sense if you're color-blind.
It's open-source: https://github.com/vpavlenko/rawl
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
music-visualizer discussion
music-visualizer related posts
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ProjectM – Cross-Platform Music Visualization Library
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ButterChurn – WebGL2 Audio Visualizer
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Show HN: SlideSynth
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Who has never done this?
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Butterchurn Sound Visualizer
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Visualizer Tool for Deaf People
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Possibility of embedding ButterChurn visualizer?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source music-visualizer projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | projectm | 3,955 |
| 2 | audio-reactive-led-strip | 2,803 |
| 3 | astrofox | 1,833 |
| 4 | butterchurn | 1,754 |
| 5 | LedFx | 1,743 |
| 6 | HyperHDR | 1,708 |
| 7 | MilkDrop3 | 1,114 |
| 8 | audio-visualizer-android | 884 |
| 9 | raveberry | 742 |
| 10 | opencubicplayer | 386 |
| 11 | music_visualizer | 245 |
| 12 | sonic-sound-picture | 241 |
| 13 | geiss | 233 |
| 14 | maestro-cli | 233 |
| 15 | panon | 203 |
| 16 | Arduino-FastLED-Music-Visualizer | 199 |
| 17 | pianolizer | 114 |
| 18 | Fountain-of-Colors | 99 |
| 19 | libvisual | 98 |
| 20 | BeatDrop-Music-Visualizer | 92 |
| 21 | BeatDrop | 83 |
| 22 | rawl | 74 |
| 23 | audiobox | 72 |
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